Thursday, April 03, 2008

Wizards 2008 Salaries

Just like the past few years, the MLS players union has released the salaries for all the players in MLS. The Wizards salaries are listed there as well. The one's missing, though, are the Wizards late preseason signings (Claudio Lopez & Ivan Trujillo).

Some notes on the list are the continued shortchanging forward Scott Sealy has gotten. He's definitely due for a raise once his current contract expires. The Wizards developmental players are still not making much of a living wage, as they're only making $12,900 a season. The senior developmental players are making a bit more, as they make $17,000. The highest paid player on this list (Lopez as a designated player makes much more), is Jimmy Conrad, making a base of $213,750. Wizards number one pick, Chance Myers, is making $70,000 in base salary. Here's the Wizards roster minus Trujillo and Lopez. The first number is the players' base salary for 08 the second is the players' guaranteed compensation for this year.

I can't imagine trying to live on 13k in Kansas City, particularly not with an athlete's diet. I can only hope that there are some perks in there somewhere on a team level, like seriously reduced housing costs with certain apartment complexes or so on. I seem to remember the old MISL Wichita Wings (which I grew up supporting) had some things like that arranged with local apartment complexes and even vehicle dealerships for reduced cost leases in exchange for advertising, and so on. If they're managing to defray some living expenses, its probably doable, but it still has to suck.